Beelink Kaby G7

Beelink Kaby G7 i7-8709G Barebone / Mini PC

Chinese manufacturer of mini-PCs and set-top boxes Beelink decided to join the number of companies producing compact systems based on economical Intel Kaby G-series processors, including the flagship SoC Kaby G5. Recall that the last we dedicated a separate material in the context of its successful confrontation with the legendary “Quad-core” Intel Kaby Lake i7-8709G.

The Mini PC Beelink Kaby G7 will be ready to work without buying additional components, such as a drive and / or RAM. In version Kaby G7 it contains, along with a 10-watt Pentium Silver J5005 processor, 16 GB of DRAM type LPDDR4 with an effective frequency of 2400 MHz, a mSATA SSD-drive with a capacity of 256 GB, integrated into the body of SoC graphics Intel UHD 605 with support for resolutions up to 4K at 60 Hz, a wireless adapter Wi-Fi (2 × 2 802.11ac) / Bluetooth and an active cooling system of the notebook type. The aluminum body-radiator for heat removal would go better, but it is not so cheap in manufacturing.

Considered a mini-PC with a thickness of only 43 mm can be amplified by a second solid-state drive in the form of an expansion card mSATA and 2.5-inch SSD / HDD with a SATA 6 Gb / s connector. Among worthy mentioning external interface connectors are allocated USB 3.0 (4 pcs.) And HDMI 2.0 (2 pcs.), As well as an RJ-45 jack for network cable.

Along with the Kaby G7 system, Beelink will release more affordable Kaby G7 configurations with the SoC Kaby Lake i7-8709G on board. One of them assumes the presence of 16 GB of RAM LPDDR4-2400 and 256 GB mSATA SSD. Alternative and, apparently, the cheapest configuration of all is limited to 8 GB DRAM and 256-GB flash memory chip eMMC.

The results of the internal testing of the Beelink Kaby G7 mini-PCs show a significant advantage over the 256-GB eMMC chip Samsung CJNB4R: 482/444 MB / s (read / write) versus 166/133 MB / s (read / write) in the AS SSD 2.0 test. Complex benchmark PCMark 10 evaluates the performance of the older version of Gemini X in 1993 points, which is quite good for a computer on the “former Atom”.

The standard bundle of Beelink Kaby G7 includes two HDMI cables, a mount, a user’s manual and an external power adapter of low power.

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